ASIAN 3347 - Tantric Traditions

(crosslisted)
(also RELST 3347) @# (CA-AS)

Fall. 4 credits.

Prerequisite: one Asian Studies course, one Religious Studies course, or permission of instructor. Co-meets with ASIAN 6647.

D. Gold.

Treats the development of tantric traditions in the Indian subcontinent and beyond. Discusses philosophical, socio-religious, cultic, and visionary dimensions of tantra in different Hindu and Indo-Tibetan traditions, with some attention also paid to tantric developments in East Asian Buddhism. (RL)